I can’t wait to get to London to sightsee and drink real
British tea and eat and sightsee some more and go to the Tower of London and
meet the queen (okay, maybe not meet the queen, but pretend I’m meeting the
queen!) and see Beefeaters and shop at Harrods and try “bangers and mash” (whatever
that is!) and see castles and...yes...I’m crazy excited...

And of course what
I’m most excited about is meeting my
UK readers...at long last!!!!

So please...please, please, please come and see me if you can. I don’t know when I’ll get
another chance like this and I don’t want to miss you guys while I’m in town!!!

And for more events, closer to the US, check out my Events Page, because I totally want to see you guys too...but only if you pretend to
have fancy British accents. (I, of course,
won’t need to pretend because I’ll be bringing one back with me from London.)

P.S. I will have nail polish to give away at my Portland
(Powell’s) signing on Tuesday, April 24th and my Official Launch
Party signing (Ravenna Third Place Books in Seattle) on Saturday, April 28th. I will TRY(!!!) to bring some nail polish to
the London signing as well, but I’m still working on the packing / shipping logistics.

Monday, April 9, 2012

If you’ve watched my first two book trailers, then you know I’ve been blessed by the book trailer gods (otherwise known as the madly talented Vania Stoyanova of VLC Productions!). Well, Vania (with the help of HarperCollins) has created yet another incredible trailer for the upcoming release of THE LAST ECHO (coming next Tuesday, April 17th)! I mean, seriously, this is arguably my favorite of the bunch!

Saturday, April 7, 2012

Least Favorite: Getting up at the crack of dawn for an Easter egg hunt. Why can’t kids sleep past 7AM on holidays???

Least Favorite: Trying to figure out if any of the eggs are AWOL. The idea of finding one (or three!) of those suckers stuck in couch cushions/on window ledges/buried in plant containers months later...well, gross!

Thursday, April 5, 2012

In case you hadn’t heard, I’m going to be in Chicago next
week for RT (the Romantic Times Booklovers Convention). YAY!If you’ve never attended RT, let me tell you
about one of my most favoritest events EVER….the ginormous TEEN DAY celebration
on Saturday, April 14th!

TEEN DAY is the only day of the convention that’s open
to the public. You can either pay $5 at the door for the GIANT book
signing expo from 11-2PM. OR...if you’re a Young Adult, you and one “chaperone”
can pay a measly $25 for the entire day’s events which run from 11AM –
7:30PM!All of the nit-picky details can
be found here!

If you’re even kinda, sorta, maaaaybe thinking about coming,
let me give you one more incentive: Not only will they have copies of THE LAST
ECHO before-everyone-else-can-get-them, but I will also be bringing a limited
number of The Last Echo nail polishes with me!!!

So, how do you get this creeptastically awesome swag, you
ask?Well, since I won’t have enough for
everyone, all you have to do is come up to me at the giant signing event and
say, “You can’t hide...”

(Mysterious, right? It’s kinda the catch-phrase for The Last
Echo!)

As long as you say “You can’t hide”, and I still have polish
left, it’s yours! Easy peasy!!! It’s first
come, first serve, so don’t you dare be shy! :)

Plus, you get to meet about a gajillion other YA (and
non-YA) authors at the signing. Trust, me, it is so beyond cool!

If you’re already registered to attend RT, you should
totally stop by on Wednesday, April 11th at 1:00PM for the panel I’m
doing with Carrie Ryan, Kiera Cass, Rosemary Clement-Moore,
and Kelly Keaton (aka Kelly Gay). It’s called Murder, Mayhem and Madness: YA
ACTION & SUSPENSE, and I think you can guess there will probably be talk of
serial killers, zombies, and kissing.